Glossary

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Arcana - Latin arcanum meaning secret, mystery. The Tarot is divided into the Major (22 Trump cards) and the Minor (56 Pip cards) Arcana. Paul Christian, a student of the French Occultist and authorÉliphas Lévi, first used the term arcane for the two sets of cards in the 18th century.

Clairvoyant - "one who sees clearly"; the apparent ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through extra-sensory perception.

Divination - practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through communication with divine sources and through omens, oracles and signs. It attempts to make known those things that neither reason nor science can discover.

Extra-sensory perception - ability to acquire information independent of any known physical senses or deduction from previous experience; also called the '6th sense'; this includes precognition (seeing the future), clairvoyance, intuition.

Esoteric- Greek esoterikos meaning inner, within, "inwardness". Esoteric knowledge is that which is available only to a narrow circle of "enlightened", "initiated", or specially educated people. Esoteric items may be known asesoterica. In contrast, exotericknowledge is knowledge that is well-known or public.

Intuitive - ability to sense or know immediately without reasoning; to have a 'hunch', 'gut feeling', following one's 'instinct'.

Magic (sorcery) - also spelled Magick - a conceptual system that asserts human ability to control or predict the natural world (including events, objects, people, physical phenomena) through mystical, paranormal or supernatural means.

Medium - a person, who has the ability to make contact with spirits of the dead, and entities such as angels and demons. A spiritual medium, also called spiritualist, may allow his or her body to be taken over by spirit entities and as a result may fall into a trance to pass on their messages.

Occult - Latin occultus meaning hidden, concealed. Occultism is the study of occult or hidden wisdom. To the occultist it is the study of "Truth", a deeper truth that exists beneath the surface: 'The truth is always hidden in plain sight'. The term occult is often falsely associated with devil worshipping and black magic. "Even the simplest occult studies are dangerous for those who are not willing to lead pure and upright lives in any circumstances." Annie Horniman, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn